See you in hell.

| ARTIST @alisonbpaige |

[suliqyre]

A successful artwork shows us something we haven't seen before. It does this by drawing our attention to an aspect of our experience through a representation of that experience in a particular medium. As such, all art attains its power through metaphor.

In seeing the connection between the artistic representation and our experience, we encounter the beauty and truth of the artwork, and it is this encounter that helps us become more aware of the world and ourselves. We often feel intensely the value of such an encounter, and we are moved to share it with others. Through the practice of criticism, we show others the parts of the work we've noticed, and in doing so, we offer our own perspective for consideration.

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[metamorphesque]

— Myoung Ho Lee, Trees / Herman Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

[perfectfeelings]

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Reflections

[theoptia]

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959; May 13th, 1959

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, from "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses", Deaf Republic

[shisasan]

Roberto Ferri, L’Amore La Morte E Il Sogno, 2017, detail

[metamorphesque]

— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

[aherooftheirtime]

“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood”

— Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

[stavroginas]

Hélène Cixous, Love of the Wolf

[the-framed-maelstrom]

In their shared pursuit of the divine, they become yoked together as equals. — Phaedrus 255d–256e

[thirdity]

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance. We want to feel as remote from the world as we can. As remote as we can: that is hardly strong enough; we want a world turned upside down and inside out. The truth of eroticism is treason.”

— Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

[metamorphesque]

Repose, John White Alexander

[lilithingardenofeden-deactivate]

'The Origin of the Harp of Elfin' (c. 1890), Henry Jones Thaddeus (Irish, 1859-1929)

[funeral]

Belden C. Lane, The Great Conversation

[petaltexturedskies]

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature… yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are — vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth — and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

[prophetic-memory]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[charnel-grounds]

Roberto Ferri (b. 1978) - “Like Poison”

oil on canvas, 2023